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public that will permit it oii^ht to eat oleomargarine — or the 

 butter 



Shall we say, can we say, that the i)ublic is meddling with 

 priyate enterprise when it appoints inspectors, or trayeling ex- 

 perts to yisit factories and giye assistance, or when it estab- 

 lishes schools for the education of the young stockman and the 

 milk-producer or for the training of skillful operatiyes. Shall 

 we saj, or can we say that the outlay is squandered; that it is 

 a waste of public funds; or that to impart technical instruc- 

 tion at public expense is unfair discrimination between indus- 

 tries, or that it institutes a yicious system of goyernmental 

 l)atronage? By no means. When the public does these 

 things it is attending to its own business; it is legislating 

 for its own advantage. What though the indiyidual does 

 profit by the system. Is he worth less to the world because 

 he can serye it better and because he is worth more to him- 

 self? 



Years ago Canada employed an expert cheese maker to 

 stud}^ the problem of cheese production in that country and 

 to go about from place to place teaching the best methods in 

 the factories. Result: Canadian cheese is sought after in 

 the markets of the w^orld. We haye employed what might 

 be called the index)endent system with a steam churn in the 

 cheese factory and a curd tank in the creamery and the out- 

 come of it is suggestiyely recorded in the popular names 

 skimmed and half-skimmed, w^hite oaks and car wheels. 

 Here w^as absence of goyernment patronage, and there has 

 come to be little of any other sort. What we need is educa- 

 tion, training all along the line and a strong popular sentiment 

 fayoring it. We, the producers, must take high ground in this 

 matter. 



With the advent of improved and expensive machinery, 

 the manfuacturing business has been taken largely from the 

 hands of individuals and placed with companies. The result 

 has been a better and more uniform product, which has 

 educated the public taste and by creating a demand for goods 

 of a superior grade has practically driven from the markets 

 the products of home manufacture. In nothing has the 

 change come more rapidly or with a more pronounced effect 



